c1rcle opened this issue on Jan 11, 2003 ยท 135 posts
Cheryle posted Mon, 13 January 2003 at 12:51 PM
The Pot banner's intention is deceptive. When you first see it, the reaction wanted is the one that you gave. It's an animated gif, but the cycle time is such that by the time the second cycle comes up showing it's for pottery, the user in most cases has moved on- leaving the impression that ad was for something other than what it's intention was. (may be considered deceptive advertising practices?)And it was done knowingly, using a hippy with a peace symbol (the stereotype of a pot smoking hippy) with the verbaige " hey baby, got any pot?" leaving the impression that it is for marijuana, not pottery. Yep i can see how having a hippy stereotype would get me to click on that when i am looking for vases etc. Marajuana use is considered an adult theme. All the banners shown above and the other banner ad composit in another thread are all adult themed. In topless restaurants and bars in my area, just because a waitress has paisties on covering her nipples does not make it family oriented, one has to show proof of age to enter. Regular bar and grills one does not have to show proof of id to enter, even when there is liquor served. Children are allowed in bars as long as they are accompanied by an adult. So sticking little x's over nipples does not make this family freindly. Saying this site is family oriented is not true. There are explicit adult themes displayed. Yes it says when joining that there are adult themes, but what you see above is viewable by all who hit this site even before being forewarned that there are adult themes in the gallery. One cannot turn off those ads with the nudity filter. One is subjected to them no matter what one has set in the filter. My point? This is not a family freindly site whith advertisements like the ones shown above and on the front page with no way of filtering them out.